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Blueberry
Joined: 15 Apr 2009
Location: Wonju
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| Ah, the hillbilly grammar thread. Cool. |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| Blueberry wrote: |
| Ah, the hillbilly grammar thread. Cool. |
That must be what the ancient Latin grammarians said. Cool. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| Blueberry wrote: |
| Ah, the hillbilly grammar thread. Cool. |
Now that's funny! For some reason that reminds of the joke about "The Dukes of Hazzard" being on PBS in the south.
Disclaimer: I am from the south, iffin' you can call Floriduh the south. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Is, "there're," a proper contraction of there |
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Spell checkers say it's incorrect, but Wictionary says yes it's indeed a colloquial contraction. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there%27re
I've always used it and knew it must be a part of the English language as I couldn't be inventing things. Peoplelator, fatilator, and robotanator are my latest invented words. Peoplelators are inclined conveyor belts in Emart stores. Fatilator is that machine you put a belt around your waist that shakes the excess RAM out of you and robotanators are robot making drones who don't have a life as they work 7 days a week and recharge on the sojuvinator 7 nights a week.
Since, there're is casual as in being colloquial, can it be used in professional writing such as posting on Daves, letters to the editor, and any reports as well as resumes?
I know this is such a dumb geeky question to be asking on a Friday night, but I'm a geeky 'bot all alone on moon base K.  |
I like the term "Humous mechanicus" for people who work 24/7. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I say "there're" sometimes. I'm not a hillbilly. |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Blueberry wrote: |
| Ah, the hillbilly grammar thread. Cool. |
Yes, very cool indeed. How about, "Now ye all folks come back now, ye heuh meh?" 
Oh, are you surprised I'm a roboto. I was born out of your dreams and wishes. I am the mechnicus of the 21st century as I can function 24/7 in a variety of environments in highly specified functions as my handler wishes, uh, I mean handelator. I'll see you in the future.
And folks, there're all these new words as well as informal contractions coming about. |
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